Chairlifts, gondolas, and trams are, understandably, a point of enormous fascination for many skiers. Aside from those who shirk ski resorts entirely, they’re fundamental to the skiing experience, ...

Sylvain Saudan, who has died aged 87, was a Swiss extreme skier known as the “skier of the impossible” for his steep and solo descents of big mountain faces around the world. It was in 1967 that ...

Legendary Swiss extreme skiing pioneer Sylvain Saudan has passed away. Le Matin, a Swiss newspaper, reports that he died from a heart attack at 87 years old. “As a pioneer, he helped us develop the ...

Yuichiro Miura set the world speed skiing record at Italy's Kilometer Lanchard in 1964, only to see it broken the next day. Akira Kotani On the afternoon of May 6, 1970, Yuichiro Miura stood on Mount ...

Front Range skiers looking to start doing extreme skiing have an excellent challenge an hour from Denver in the Dead Dog Couloir on Torreys Peak. Chris Davenport, in his Ski the 14ers project, ...

Christina Lustenberger of Canada and Guillaume Pierrel of France went to New Zealand for a different kind of ski adventure. They found one of the scariest lines of their careers. After climbing the ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of a series, in honor of International Women’s Month, that shines a spotlight on the dynamic women of Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley. Skiing pioneer Kim Reichhelm ...